We have a team on the ground following the campaigns. Shaquille brewster with the Bernie Sanders, ali vitale with Elizabeth Warren, Josh Letterman following michael bloomberg. Good to see you. Shaq, Bernie Sanders says he is ready for the pressure. What can we expect to see tonight . Reporter thats right, chris. He said he was ready for the pressure of being and scrutiny of being frontrunner. What youre seeing from his campaign is him trying to get ahead of attacks that have been telegraphed from some of the other candidates. We know he is going to be on stage, defending his big ideas, things like medicare for all, college for all, green new deal, and candidates like Vice President biden are ready to go after him, say you havent provided the cost, havent been honest about that. Senator sanders released pay fors, to pay for the big ideas. Same ideas he has talked about, same ways to pay for them, same menu of options in each of them. He put them on one list, put them on the website, said i am showing you how i propose to pay for many of these things. It is clear the campaign is ready for attacks. Senator sanders admitted he is not comfortable with, he is used to being an outsider, now he has to be ready foray tax from other candidates, and giving them ammunition. Yesterday, he was defending his comments about fidel castro and the literacy program, while condemning the cuban regime. It is that the candidates will try to pull any way they can, go after him any way they can, knowing this is a moment, may be one of the final moments to directly confront him before his momentum continues. Do or die applies here. Elizabeth warren got a big money bump after the last debate. She was widely praised for her debate performance, no bump in the poll. Whats the battle plan tonight . Reporter look, nevada was a little different than the past few states weve seen because for the warren campaign, she had that kind of standout debate performance, but so many people early voted there was no polling boost. This campaign, that debate marked a larger point made in the context of the primary, showing that theres still life in the warren campaign, yet we know they needed that money boost they got in days and hours following the debate. Thats important. Her strategy has always been to push deeper into the primary calendar and use the infrastructure that her campaign has invested in and built across the country. Thats coming into play super tuesday. The nevada debate for them was crucial if only on that front. What theyre hoping is now that you get into South Carolina, that they can just get another bump out of a strong debate performance. We know from the campaign trail shes only just continued hitting someone like michael bloomberg. He continues to be a perfect foil for her campaign. The question for everyone on stage is what theyre going to do about Bernie Sanders. Other candidates on stage have previewed on the campaign trail theyre willing to go directly at sanders. For warren thats a little stickier. Shes willing to draw contrast on filibuster reform, but thats not an attack a voter can latch onto and think how it will directly impact her life. For warren, it is about efficiency and getting progressive policies done. It will be interesting to see if she sharpens the knife for Bernie Sanders at all. If youre on stage and your name isnt Bernie Sanders, you need to make a case why youre in the primary going forward. Voters who arent going for a Bernie Sanders candidacy want to see an alternative on stage. For many of them, it is not if they can stay in with money, should they stay in with the argument on stage. Money is not the problem for michael bloomberg, the debate is he is looking for a do over. I find it interesting that a lot of his supporters and aides say his debate was so poor. How has he been prepping, what are you hearing from inside the campaign . Practice makes perfect, chris. Michael bloomberg has been off the campaign trail several days as he has been huddled with advisers, working to rehearse for the debate, making sure he doesnt have a repeat of the weak performance in the first debate. We have spoken with Campaign Officials that say his singular focus tonight will be on Bernie Sanders and working to take him down. Throughout the day today, as we get ready for the debate, we see the Bloomberg Campaign start to preview some of the attacks he may use in tonights debate. We finished a News Conference in front of american flags behind miada hotel in charleston where a group of surrogates for Mike Bloomberg, mayors and others that endorsed Mike Bloomberg attacked Bernie Sanders record, going after his record on gun control as well as criticizing him for what they describe as a thin record of accomplishment for narrowing the income gap for people of color. I asked the surrogates what about Mike Bloombergs only record on race and policing, other comments that came to light that raised a lot of questions. They said look, its different. Mike bloomberg has apologized, said he learned from his mistakes. Thats something theyre waiting to see from Bernie Sanders. Josh letterman, shaq brewster, ali vitale, thank you. Joining me, a consultant that works on campaigns of newt gingrich, mitt romney, and dr. Ben carson. Great to see you. Sher michael, i covered the Carson Campaign and jeb bush for awhile. As i mentioned at the top, it wasnt long after the South Carolina primary that they were both gone. The pressure on a night like tonight. Take us inside what it is like in these campaigns, knowing theres so much at stake. Chris, i remember in 2016 i was in South Carolina, i was in that room watching that performance, had other colleagues that worked for the other republican candidates at that time, i have to tell you the biggest concern is money. You know that super tuesday is right around the corner and the question is can my candidate perform well enough so that we can go to the top donors so you can also send out email blasts to your supporters, energizing them to contribute whatever they can to give you some type of fuel going into super tuesday with the hope that you can maybe win two or three states to be able to argue why you should continue and maintain your candidacy in the race. Thats going to be the biggest question for many of the candidates and their campaigns tonight and i would argue, chris, when you look at the momentum and Energy BehindBernie Sanders at this point which reminds me so much of donald trump in 2016, it may be too late to change the direction. Thats what were going to find out, right . Joel, no surprise to you that theres kind of a deluge of Oppo Research on Bernie Sanders, after the last debate there was surprise more of it didnt come in. Some of his folks are saying things now were led to believe some of the lets say wilder things as people have sort of put them that Bernie Sanders has said in the past, that your campaign, Hillary Clintons campaign chose not to use. Are you surprised by the things youre hearing, and is it all out war against Bernie Sanders now, do or die . No, im not surprised by anything were seeing. This is in a lot of ways the last stand of the establishment of the Democratic Party. At least in terms of whether or not a joe biden can really reassert himself at the top of the race. It is interesting, i notice joshua in South Carolina with the Bloomberg Campaign, and if i was the Bloomberg Campaign, i would actually want joe biden to not do well, i wouldnt be attacking Bernie Sanders because the way that bloomberg isolates the race as he versus sanders is if biden falters this week, and if this turns into a super tuesday fight between sanders and bloomberg. I think thats an interesting bit of strategy, if they even have folks on the ground in South Carolina, and theyre contesting South Carolina even though bloomberg is a candidate in ab sen sha, he is not on the ballot. Tonight will be for the second tier candidates to justify why am i still in the race, why am i still relevant, why do my donors still need to give me money, why do folks in the party not need to push me out of the race. For buttigieg, for klobuchar, for warren, they have to justify why they still belong in this race and why theyre not simply stopping the inevitability of sanders or sanders and bloomberg versus biden being the ultimate result of what we see. And i think Oppo Research can be tricky. What actually sticks has changed post trump. Having said that, i think theres first of all always the criticism, do you go too far against your fellow democrats that in fact democrats dont like it, have you chosen something that isnt going to stick but make you look small somehow. I mean, again, what are you expecting to see tonight in terms of some of the tougher and maybe even newer attacks in. Look, i think ill start with Elizabeth Warren for starters. I think Elizabeth Warren has to be able to distinguish herself from Bernie Sanders. They have a lot of similar ideas, a lot of similar supporters. She should have done this several months ago. I think now she reached a point her campaign is almost out of money, and it may be a little too late. For someone like a joe biden who wants to knock Bernie Sanders out of the number one spot to take that position again has to articulate to voters, particularly africanAmerican Voters in South Carolina and beyond come super tuesday that if Bernie Sanders becomes a democratic nominee, it is almost certain that democrats may indeed lose their house majority. It is certain that President Trump will likely be reelected by maybe even a stronger margin than 2016. Joel is shaking his head. Voters have to consider that if they vote for Bernie Sanders because a lot of his ideas while they do register with a very small subset of democratic voters, it is not representative of the Democratic Party at large, certainly not representative of the American Voter populous at large. Thats something that some of the candidates have to make a distinction tonight on that stage. Joel . Chris, chris, you have no idea how much we have talked about this off the air and i do believe. But look, i understand why he is someone who is from his political background may have glee whats going on at the democratic primary, the idea of Bernie Sanders being at the top of the ticket. But i would argue there were a lot of people that vote like i vote, that had the same feeling when donald trump became the republican nominee four years ago. In politics, the ground moves beneath your feet very quickly, and usually you get caught fighting the last war. I would be very careful for my good friend shermichael, i have family that say he is their favorite person. You have a Family Member that says that . Your family sounds like my family. Chris, if i can say quickly to my friend joel, thats my point, joel, the democrats have to coalesce around one alternative, otherwise it will be a repeat of 2016. Just like we got donald trump, democrats will be stuck with Bernie Sanders. 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Global death toll has surpassed 2600, with more than 77,000 confirmed cases. Joining me, director of National Institute of allergy and infectious diseases, dr. Anthony fauci. A sobering update from the cdc. What are the health risks now in the u. S. That we know . Well, currently the health risks are minimum, practically nonexi nonexistent dealing with coronavirus. What the cdc was referring to is the fact that were seeing cases now in a considerable number outside of china in other countries, south korea, italy, iran, japan, and when you start to see sustained transmission from person to person in multiple Different Countries throughout the world, it is inevitable that this will come to the United States and youll have the kinds of infections we hope were not going to see but inevitably will see unless the other countries get complete control of the infections, for example, in south korea and italy and other places. We need to be prepared. I think the chances are slim that theyre going to be able to control it completely, and each day we see more countries that are now having Community Spread of person to person. And thats the reason why the cdc made that warning in their press conference that it is likely we will see infections in this country. So one of the things we heard from the president today who was asked about it at a press conference in india is we are close to a vaccine, he feels confident. How close are we, number one. Number two, even if were close to that vaccine, what are the chances that the timing will be soon enough that we can stop what may indeed be this inevitable set of cases . Well, youre asking a very good question. We are going to have a vaccine in early phase one trial to determine safety in the next couple of months, if not sooner. That will be the quickest we ever got a vaccine from the time we discovered a pathogen to the time we started to test it in humans. However, thats just the first step in the development of a vaccine. And if you really want to talk about realistic timing, it is likely that we will not have a vaccine available for deployment in a meaningful way in at least a year to a year and a half. A year to a year and a half . That is correct. We will be testing it literally within a month or so, but a vaccine that we can give to tens and tens of millions of people will not happen for at least a year, even under emergency process. So what do we do in the meantime . How prepared are we and what do we still need to do, doctor . Well, i mean,